432 Correspo7idence — A. R. Hunt. 



When, in 1872, I recorded my first note from information received, 

 and when, in 1878, I secured my first crystalline block, I was working 

 to confirm the geological theory, mirabile clictu, that the Devon schists 

 had been metamorphosed by a submarine prolongation of the post- 

 Carboniferous Dartmoor granite. My first half - dozen specimens 

 dispelled that phantasy. Ten years' work went to show that the 

 Channel blocks were local, and had absolutely nothing to do with 

 Dartmoor. Then the question of the Selsea crystalline erratics and 

 the erratics on the Prawle coast presented itself in favour of a foreign 

 origin. Thus some rocks were local, at any rate the Eddystone reef, 

 but some might be foreign. None, however, claimed relation with 

 Dartmoor. That seemed clear at that time. Since then Mr. Worth 

 has absolutely demonstrated Dartmoor shingle in the beaches of Start 

 Bay, and now he has demonstrated, at anj- rate to my satisfaction, 

 Dartmoor gravel or stones fifteen miles south of the Eddystone. Mark 

 the complication. We have possibly river-drift down the old drowned 

 river-vallej's ; we have local rocks certainly ; we may have foreign 

 ice-borne rocks ; and all in the same area. To disentangle the sizes 

 of the rocks and stones, Mr. Crawshay's paper must be read with 

 Mr. Worth's, as Mr. Crawshay publishes the table of size of shingle 

 to which Mr. Worth refers. 



Mr. Worth mentions Godwin-Austen's littoral shells at the mouth 

 of the English Channel. Some occurred more than 100 miles west of 

 the Land's End. As shells are liable to decay and to destruction by 

 marine borers, it is difficult to assign any great antiquity to these 

 shells. But, if modern, they must have been swept out of the 

 Channel by currents, generally unsuspected. And, as a matter of fact, 

 bottom currents are often created and occasionally currents are 

 reversed during heavy gales of wind. 



Mr. Crawshay convicts the Channel deposits of extreme disorderliness 

 in their defiance of established rules.. A. E.. Hunt. 



August 5th, 1908. 



lVCISCELL.A.nsrEOTJS. 



In Memorial M. Joachim Barkande,' the Geologist of Bohemia 



(1799-1883). 



On June 6th, 1908, Miss Aline Girardeau died at Prague in the 

 90th year of her age. She was executrix to the will of Joachim 

 Barrande, who devoted forty years to the study of the Bohemian 

 Silurian rocks and bequeathed his great collections to the Prague 

 Museum. She took great interest in the completion of Barrande's 

 work and left 12,000 kroners to the Boyal Bohemian Museum for 

 their publication. To honour his memory she bequeathed to 

 Professor Dr. Ant. Eric 50 kroners to place a wreath on the 

 restoration of the Barrande tablet on the Kuchelbaden Bock, 

 Bohemia. 



1 See his life, Geol. Mag., 18S3, p. 529. 



